Hi! We are using discourse_docker with Discourse v2.2.0.beta10 +6 Our nightly backup has failed a couple of times during the last month. The log says: [2019-02-17 03:31:42] Finalizing backup... [2019-02-17 03:31:42] Creating archive: forum-2019-02-17-033115-v20190125153345.tar.gz [2019-02-17 03:31:42] Making sure archive does not already exist... [2019-02-17 03:31:42] Creating empty archive... [2019-02-17 03:31:42] Archiving data dump... [2019-02-17 03:31:43] Archiving uploads... [2019-02-17 03:34:19] EXCEPTION: /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backuper.rb:237:in `block in create_archive': Failed to archive uploads. [2019-02-17 03:34:19] /var/www/discourse/lib/discourse.rb:29:in `execute_command' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backuper.rb:237:in `block in create_archive' /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.5.0/fileutils.rb:122:in `chdir' /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.5.0/fileutils.rb:122:in `cd' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backuper.rb:235:in `create_archive' [...] [2019-02-17 03:34:19] Deleting old backups... [2019-02-17 03:34:19] Something went wrong while deleting old backups. [2019-02-17 03:34:19] Cleaning stuff up... [2019-02-17 03:34:19] Removing '.tar' leftovers... [2019-02-17 03:34:19] Unpausing sidekiq... [2019-02-17 03:34:19] Marking backup as finished... [2019-02-17 03:34:19] Refreshing disk stats... [2019-02-17 03:34:21] Notifying 'system' of the end of the backup... Seems like it fails to archive (tar) the backups? But it doesn’t say why. Regards, Jonas

Nightly backup fails

gerhard (Gerhard Schlager) February 18, 2019, 4:10pm 2

Upgrading should fix it. I recommend you do a rebuild on the console:

./launcher rebuild app

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